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> It just works.

That "it just works" thing gets me all the time. I just don't get it. Some things surely do work nicely out of the box in a proprietary specialized tool, like for example JS/TS-related things indeed are very nice in VSCode. Just like Java-related stuff works great in IntelliJ.

But programming is far more than writing code. I can argue that writing in plain English for a programmer is perhaps far more important than writing in a PL.

And for any kind of plain-text manipulation, Emacs absolutely has no match today. Of that, I'm certain, because I have watched and followed many VSCode/IntelliJ power users and long-time users, and I do occasionally use those tools personally as well. There are so many practical example use cases where Emacs just kicks things out of the ballpark - from sending requests to LLMs in the midst of taking notes, to controlling video playback, and annotating PDFs - typing those annotations while browsing the document.

And then that "it just works" fallacy. No cookie-cutter solution ever can make a true coder happy. How can one not get annoyed by a bunch of minor, seemingly not-big-of-a-deal issues over a long period of time? Like having to use the mouse for certain operations without a good alternative, or fixed keybindings that can't be fully customized, or the search bar not remembering your last search position and parameters? It's like buying a car with seats at a fixed angle and not even being able to change that.

I mean, sure, Emacs may seem dauntingly complex at first glance, but the initial investment in learning this infinitely hackable tool pales in comparison to the countless hours lost wrestling with the unchangeable constraints of less adaptable alternatives.

> I tolerated the LISP aspect.

I don't know the extent of what you meant by that, but I guess you've "acquired a vehicle," using it to commute and go grocery shopping, and never even realized that you had an actual spaceship all this time. Emacs is most importantly "a Lisp Machine" with a built-in text editor and not the other way around. It is exactly Lisp that makes it so fascinatingly hackable. One chooses Emacs, Lem, Light Table, etc., specifically because of Lisp, not to "tolerate" or "suffer" through dealing with it.
A really long word salad that doesn't say much, except state your religious pinions and disclaimer? It really is not necessary

With that said, all you said is that the process of transmitting religious ideas is akin to hallucination? Care to explain what the logical argument for that is?
Freestyle and FIDE organization are not in competition.

They're competing for the time and attention of the players. If there are two competitions on the same day, players will have to choose which competition to play in. That in itself will determine where the sponsorship money goes unless they can agree not to put events on at the same time. They won't do that because it isn't in either group's interest.
Both android and ios allow root certificates, but most apps nowadays use SSL pinning, so that's no longer an option, either.
the main criticism is about sending private and sensitive data to Apple without consent and warning
You could just as well ask "what should I do given the information I've provided you with"? start from a blank space and it's zero value
Aviation is safe largely because of training and adherence to procedure. I'm not sure about elsewhere in the world but the US population of drivers seems largely immune to both of these things for driving a car.
Is It Possible to Improve Memory or Are We Doomed to Forget as We Age? (2023)
You can, with magisk.
a reaction to your comment

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My IG notifications are disabled in perpetuity precisely for that reason, even if it has come at a cost of not receiving IM arrival notifications from a couple of friends who message me exclusively via IG (another enigma – why, as both have my contact details on proper messaging platforms).

Frankly, hundreds of daily notifications is the reality we can't change, and the question is: why do people choose to succumb to the misery of it rather than availing themselves of the proper implements so readily at their disposal?
So you don't want to actually own your devices?
Often for me not the hardware was the bottleneck but the software - I had some old phones which became unusable because half of the essential software would not work anymore on the outdated android versions - same with iPhone, it gets updates for some years but if I can’t use e.g my banking app the phone is useless - these ungodly apps are half the reason I am forced to use this machine in the first place…
So do you network yourself into the companies then to get an interview? Or do you apply online?

I'd like to know more about a manual approach.

I think both approaches are valid. I took the automated approach to online dating, married now. So that worked out.

Taking the automated approach for companies will probably work in a similar fashion as online dating. However, unlike online dating, I feel very strong targeted approaches have a chance of working better as long as you get to the interview stage.

Targeted approaches don't work with online dating as the biggest issue is figuring out with whom you have chemistry. For work, there's no such thing to figure out - not to the extent as it is required like romantic intimacy.
you're not on 3.5 anymore
Let me guess: One Must Fall 2097 or FX Fighter?
> It almost seems like Apple gets held to a higher standard just because they have privacy preserving initiatives

It doesnt' seem this way at all. It is rare to see someone talking about current behavior, they are always talking about the slippery slope - such as landmark detection obviously being the first step in detecting propaganda on a political dissident's phone.

This isn't driven by trying to hold them to a higher standard; it is an emotional desire of wanting to see them caught in a lie.
To send an outbound email today you must have a special skill set and years of carefully built reputation. I just outsource it to smtp2go.
Meanwhile, solar panels might be super efficient because they get to use the moon as a giant reflector. Shedding heat will be an interesting problem though... perhaps thermal panels and Stirling generators instead of PV? They could save a bunch of weight by just using the water-ice when they get there. Sounds like a fun project to work on!
Imagine if China managed to convince Mexico to join a military alliance and then moved to deploy troops, military bases, and likely nuclear weapons right on the border. I assume you obviously agree that even in this scenario China is not planning to literally invade the US, yet the US would obviously never in a million years allow this - and if China did not back down there would, with 100% certainty, be a war over it.

Come to think of it, this isn't even much of a hypothetical as this is essentially exactly what the Cuban Missile Crisis [1] was about, but the US was freaking out about weapons that were not even on a shared border, merely 'too close', bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war over it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
Idk about here in particular, but many reddit threads do in fact source their infos from reliable sources (unlike the HN post you're quoting)
Honestly I'm a little tired so I'm not gonna completely/perfectly address everything you said here but

> If they know some people will be against the feature, why not ask instead of enabling it for them?

Honestly I would just say this is because you can only ask so many things. This is a hard to explain feature, and at some point you have to draw a line on what you should and shouldn't ask for consent on. For many people, the default reaction to a cookie popup is to hit "accept" without reading because they see so many of them. Consent fatigue is a privacy risk too. Curious where you'd choose to draw the line?

> Do you really not see how this is not a good faith comparison? I'm not going to address this.

Yes, my point is that your reasoning isn't good faith either. We both know it's silly and a bit conspiratorial to imply that Apple adding a setting for it means they know a feature is secretly bad. If they wanted to hide this from us, neither of us would be talking about it right now because we wouldn't know it existed.

> We all just learned about today! We don't even need to speculate about whether it is impractical, we know it can't be done, and that's before we consider that loss of privacy and agency over devices is a death-by-a-thousand-cuts situation.

That's fair, but there's honestly no perfect answer here. Either you appease the HN crowd on every feature but overwhelm most non-technical users with too many popups to the point they start automatically hitting "yes" without reading them, or you make features that you truly consider to be completely private opt-out but upset a small subset of users who have extremely strict privacy goals.

How do you choose where that dividing line is? Obviously you can't ask consent for every single feature on your phone, so at some point you have to decide where the line between privacy and consent fatigue is. IMO, if a feature is genuinely cryptographically secure and doesn't reveal any private data, it probably should be opt-out to avoid overwhelming the general public.

Also, how would you phrase the consent popup for this feature? Remember that it has to be accurate, be understandable to the majority of the US population, and correct state the privacy risks and benefits. That's really hard to do correctly, especially given "21 percent of adults in the United States (about 43 million) fall into the illiterate/functionally illiterate category"[0].

[0] https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/How-Serious-Is-Americas...
Unless the water ditch would have killed everyone, that’s not immediately clear.

Had they known what was going to happen they’d likely have chosen some other option.
You're inverting morality and infantilising the consumer. Apple is a corporation. Corporations don't owe you moral anything, except as required by law.

Choosing an Apple product is consent to trusting Apple. Continued use their products represents ongoing consent. This is an objective fact about all complex connected devices and it cannot possibly be otherwise.
My favourite memories from Christmas were this year! I grew up as a poor kid. Christmas was kind of hard every year. I know my mum did try to make it special but more often than not, I just felt disappointed as a kid. I had no belief in things like Santa, or God, tooth fairy’s or Easter bunnies because even as a kid, I found it difficult to believe that these imaginary figures would randomly choose to favour some kids over others for what felt like no apparent reason.
Then as an adult, for my own kids, I did what my mum tried to do and I did my best, but still, Christmas was often disappointing and stressful and I often had to choose between celebrating Christmas or paying my bills. So I stopped celebrating it all together, opting instead to just give my kids a bit of cash and take then shopping on Boxing Day.
Then this year in general I took bigger risks, made bigger sacrifices, and I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily been easier but I actually made enough money to make ends meet and then some. We did Christmas, and I invited over my family, and the guy I’ve been dating. There was cliche Christmas games, family banter, my kids got heaps of presents from relatives and it was just the first Christmas I remember having where I didn’t feel stressed. I felt actual joy. And then for a few days after I just felt relaxed and content, enjoying my massive amount of time off work because as fate would have it, I didn’t lock in any contracts over Christmas, and I think if I had I would have worked it, but I think the universe gave me a gift this year which was just being able to spend time with my family without feeling an impending sense of doom.
Magical.
You're extensively describing the technical implementation while missing the fundamental issue: Why is Apple enabling this feature by default for what is, essentially, a luxury photo search feature?

Let's break this down:

1. Nobody is questioning whether Apple's technical implementation is sophisticated or secure. It clearly is.

2. Nobody is suggesting the privacy toggles don't work. They do.

3. The issue is about Apple deciding that automatically sending data about users' photos (regardless of how securely) is an acceptable default for a feature many users may never want or need.

Consider the value proposition here: Apple invested significant engineering resources into complex homomorphic encryption and differential privacy... so users can search for landmarks in their photos? And they deemed this feature so essential that it should be enabled by default?

This feels like using a golden vault with military-grade security to store grocery lists. Yes, the security is impressive, but that's not the point. The point is: Why are my grocery lists being moved to the vault without asking me first?

A privacy-respecting approach would be:
"Hey, would you like to enable enhanced landmark search in your photos? We've built some really impressive privacy protections to make this secure..."

Instead of:
"We've already started analyzing your photos for landmarks because we built really impressive privacy protections..."

The sophistication of the technology doesn't justify making it the default for what is ultimately an optional convenience feature.
An analogy does not mean it is around the level. ;D

It wasn't even the point of analogy dear. Help: the benefit/risk ratio is the point.

What you think about using information is different to what criminals think about using the information of anyone using the product. Not you is the point here, wrong orientation again. Everyone have the superfluous knicknacks, and everyone had their data leaked.

Maybe if you think you will not loose your credit card, you are much more organized for that or whatever superpower makes it so, or there will be no-one to take significant ammount from it, then please, write your PIN on the back. For you precious convenience. Better yet, have everyone's PIN written on it!! : /

Sorry for the bitter sarcasm, but I hate so much the self centered reasoning in something that is for everyone, you kind of people ruin things for all of us by allowing, even asking for fiddle-faddle tacky things, that expose all the rest to risks and dangers!
didn't read the article, but I can imagine if things goes well, in developed cities/states, the robot to human ratio can be anywhere between 3:1 to 1:1. Robots will be indistinguishable from weapons. How can a billion human regulates 3 billion robots, regardless how many safety layers we have.

There are many small countries run by military with probably 1:100 military to civilian ratio, the civilians can do nothing to change it.

Technology is wonderful, I am very optimistic about the technology, but also can't help feeling the same way as Hinton does.
this is why there are 2 pilots? doesn't add up
I've been looking for a few months. I've got 20 years of professional dev experience, including in an eye-catching domain and haven't used LLMs in the process either.

Since university I have never not been offered the first job I've applied for. For 10 years now I could ring any of the firms working in the niche I've been in and more or less set my rate. I still could, but I'm trying to get out of that niche into the wider world. I've put hundreds of tailored applications in and basically had nothing (literally a few interviews with Canonical, which is a complete car crash of a process and an HR screening call for a role on half my previous income where she said they were struggling with the number of applications, that I didn't hear back from).

It's an absolute bloodbath out there. I regret I don't have any answers, but good luck with your search.
it did https://divestos.org/pages/faq#microgEnable
You don't "exit" Vim, tis not a stage - you quit it. And then go to Emacs because tis a killer, a vocation from which there's no quitting - it is for life.
Glad someone got it.
the 21 port was actually largely complete: https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Build/blob/maste...
The second category isn't just drug users. It's also people who are not mentally capable of keeping up the routine of decisions that keep them off the streets. Opposite of the "temporarily unhoused" category, they tend to be "temporarily housed".
I mean.... IMHO self titled "solopreneurs" throwing together a for-profit web app that runs in the background to feed an applicant answers from ChatGPT just so they can cheat en masse on an exam feels like a far cry from old school phreakers building blue boxes in their basement to stick it to Ma Bell.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/capn-crunch-whistle
Same with GoPros.
the updates were all on time: https://divestos.org/misc/ffa-dates.txt
Yes. You implied that regulation for companies is inherently a good thing, and I disagree.
If the domain of easy applications is automated entries and copy paste, then Workday is indeed the desired tooling. LinkedIn Easy Apply serves the applicant, but I can't imagine any recruiter loves it.
Very cool story. But so what? The people you describe are the ones who stuck with it. The people for whom it was not working went and found something else. So you would not describe them as taxi drivers. You would describe them as used car salesman, or grocery store casheer, or simply bum on the street.
I don't know, it seems like a pretty good way to price things. Yes, you have to consider if you want to pay for each user you give access to. But the point is usually that giving someone access is the value of the product to you. Plus, costs tend to scale by seat. A major cost is support rather than data or load.

What would suck more than per seat is dividing cost+profit over all customers equally and ending up needing to charge a huge amount for anyone to access with unlimited users. Also bad is going under by not having a sustainable business.

To summarize:

(1) For most user facing products, the value is user access, so that's what you pay for.
(2) Costs scale by seat due to increased complexity and support.
We don’t know if the pilots were aware of emergency yet. It’s plausible they erroneously thought landing gear was down and attempted a fatal go-around once the airframe hit the runway. The SOP for broken landing gear is to land on the runway anyway because you have immediate access to emergency services.
For the most part, this wasn't an individual problem. Corporations purchased these pretty expensive Pentium computers through a distributor, and just got them replaced by the vendor, per their support contract.

I've been in some consumer Apple "shadow warranty" situations, so I know what you are talking about, but IMO very different than the "IT crisis" that intel was facing. "IBM said so" had a ton of IT weight back then.
> Nyt Suomen viranomaiset saivat kaapelivaurioista epäillyn aluksen kääntymään Suomen aluevesille

Hmm, they "got it to turn". Ahem I wonder what THAT means, and I wonder if there are recordings of the communications.
Ah interesting, I looked through your build.rs for the "installable" feature, and it looked like you were running sphinx-build in there. Do you plan to ship those artifacts in the .crate file?
If you accept Android as an option, then GrapheneOS probably check a lot of your boxes on an OS level. GrapheneOS developers sit between you and Google and make sure that shit like this isn't introduced without the user's knowledge. They actively strip out crap that goes against users interests and add features that empower us.

I find that the popular apps for basic operation from F-Droid do a very good job of not screwing with the user either. I'm talking about DAVx⁵, Etar, Fossify Gallery, K-9/Thunderbird, AntennaPod etc. No nonsense software that does what I want and nothing more.

I've been running deGoogled Android devices for over a decade now for private use and I've been given Apple devices from work during all those years. I still find find the iOS devices to be a terrible computing experience. There's a feeling of being reduced to a mere consumer.

GrapheneOS is the best mobile OS I've ever tried. If you get a Pixel device, it's dead simple to install via your desktop web browser[1] and has been zero maintenance. Really!

[1] https://grapheneos.org/install/web
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I guess the author meant "the shell for '000s", but that's too much to type
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Yeah, I have never been a fan of Elon Musk, but this thing is is setting off some red flags of weird untrustworthiness.

For example, the promise that "friends at the NSA" will be providing some future unspecified form of evidence. It gives me nostalgic "I asked my uncle who works at Nintendo" vibes.
Yeremi Colino, 17, stabbed to death in a fight between two street gangs. The police have published photos of the murderers but evidently nobody in that community wants to say anything about who they are. NYPD claims they are putting resources into catching them, but how was the CEO killer caught? Some random member of the public turned him in.
How do they synthesize programs?

I would assume that internal code at Google is of higher quality than random code you find on Github. Commit messages, issue descriptions and code review is probably more useful too.
I don’t think that they played a part in this, only that they have the means.
If not all can have it then no one should?
I've had about 33% luck with unit tests coming out perfect. Usually the issues are small problems that are easily fixed though.
> It's more about public transportation make the urban middle class richer, and have marginal to no effect on lower class people or rural middle class.

It means that if you want your life to become better, you have to move in closer to the large cities. In turn, this means that your living conditions will worsen.

> That's why i don't bitch about car being way, way more subsidized than train/buses in my city

My state is doing the inverse. We (heavily) subsidize transit, and our car infrastructure is paid for by user fees ( https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-infrastructur... ). The results aren't so great.
The Logitech K740 is hands down my favourite keyboard ever, but it's out of production.

The problem is the replacement is wireless and much thicker to accommodate that.

I tried the Logitech G915 but I like a full-size keyboard, they put the stupid "G" keys on it and it completely ruins the ergonomics for me.
I had my bad kerning / bad font selection awakening when a student asked me after a lecture about Apache Maven what the porn.xml is for.
You proved my argument! Lol.
Runway landing is always preferred over a water landing.
well, batteries must be also certified. so yeah if you buy black market discarded faulty batteries on random site, you can expect a problem. of course catching all these sellers of crappy fake certified batteries becomes the responsibility of market regulator, but that is their job as far as i can tell.
Imagine if Churchill was swayed by a green brigade and just surrendered because of the potential pollution...
After watching the video it’s amazing that anyone survived